Registered Healthcare Professional - Vaccination

This role forms an integral part of the COVID Vaccination Campaign for the GP Practices in Surrey Heath. As a Registered Health Care Professional confident in working with immunisations, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering a safe and effective service for the mass delivery of vaccinations for both influenza and the COVID-19 vaccine(s). The post holder will undertake activities such as:

• Clinical assessment for eligibility and consent
• Dilution and drawing up of the vaccine from multi-dose vials
• Administering the vaccine
• Post vaccine observations support
• Management of the cold chain and maintenance of relevant clinical records

Main duties of the job include:

• The configuration of the vaccination pod and vaccination station or mobile vaccination equipment
• Supporting with planning for the clinical session or patient caseload
• Conducting clinical assessments in line with vaccine eligibility and consent requirements
• The review of complex medical histories and potential adverse reactions
• Preparation of the vaccine prior to administration in line with training and best practice guidance
• Administration of the vaccine using the National Protocol or Patient Group Direction
• Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills, maintaining role-based training and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures

About us: We are Surrey Heath Community Providers Limited, which is a federation of 7 GP practices across 10 sites, covering a population of over 104,000 patients across Surrey Heath. We began in 2016 and now employ around 200 members of staff across our clinical and corporate support teams. Our services include Surrey Heath Primary Care Network, Primacy workflow management and Upper Gordon Road Surgery. As a GP Federation and Primary Care Network, we are proud to represent our member practices and to champion primary care by working with local general practice and system partners, in the provision of community based healthcare services. We are dedicated to providing safe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of primary care services in Surrey Heath and believe in continuous commitment to quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes. Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves in ensuring our patients feel safe, supported, communicated with and respected, at a time when they may be feeling vulnerable. Our vision is to provide high quality, seamless health care that enables people to lead healthier lives, whilst feeling supported and cared for.

Job responsibilities: Please see Supporting Documents for full Job Description, List of Responsibilities and Person Specification.

Personal Attributes:

• Clear communicator with excellent oral, writing, and presentation skills
• Effective skills in communicating complex and sensitive information and in difficult situations, requiring empathy, reassurance, persuasion and influence
• Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks
• Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills
• Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own workloads to changing and often tight deadlines
• An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust
• Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do
• Flexible approach to work and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
• Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness
• Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
• Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same
• Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships
• Ability to work in a variety of settings and to travel to vaccination settings / sites
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands

Qualifications:

• Educated to degree level (level 5) in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
• Registered Health Care Professional; NMC, GPhC, HCPC
• Current immunisation training / update or willingness to undertake
• Meet the NHS England / SPS requirements to work under National Protocol or Patient Group Direction

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Previous experience in similar clinical role
• Knowledge of immunisation schedules in accordance with national recommendations
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Practical skills and knowledge of cold chain procedures and medicines management
• Working knowledge and literate with computer skills to use of word document, internet access and email correspondence and electronic record keeping
• Experienced and confident in the vaccination process; managing eligibility and consent conversations and preparing and administering vaccinations
• Evidence of continuous personal and professional development and willingness to commit to ongoing CPD
• Specialist knowledge in a relevant subject to post graduate level

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£23.86 an hour plus 12.07% annual leave payment (in lieu of annual leave).